Text| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 686.22 KIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100422378 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Modern Typography, 2nd Edition is a completely updated and revised edition of Robin Kinross's classic survey of European and North American typography since 1700, first published in 1992. In addition to numerous new illustrations and revised text, Modern Typography has been re-scaled to a new, convenient pocket format. Kinross's overview breaks ground by focusing on the history of typography as an intricate web of social, technical, and material processes, rather than a parade of typeface styles. Eye magazine calls Modern Typography the book that tells "how modern typography got to be the way it is." Together, Kinross's clear, concise writing combined with his extensive knowledge of the history of typography create a gold standard for how design history ought to be written.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Previous ed.: 1992.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface & acknowledgements (p. 8)
- 1 Modern typography (p. 13)
- 2 Enlightenment origins (p. 22)
- 3 The nineteenth-century complex (p. 34)
- 4 Reaction and rebellion (p. 45)
- 5 Traditional values in a new world (p. 54)
- 6 New traditionalism (p. 64)
- 7 Cultures of printing: Germany (p. 82)
- 8 Cultures of printing: the Low Countries (p. 97)
- 9 New typography (p. 103)
- 10 Emigration of the modern (p. 120)
- 11 Aftermath and renewal (p. 135)
- 12 Swiss typography (p. 146)
- 13 Modernity after modernism (p. 158)
- 14 Examples (p. 183)
- Postscript on reproduction (p. 234)
- 15 Sources: commentary (p. 236)
- 16 Sources: bibliography (p. 251)
- Index (p. 261)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Robin Kinross is a typographer and editor in London.